From: "Maciej Barć" <xgqt@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:51:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <813a4f92-2632-4f22-b07c-219021dc6acc@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87frxwpxcm.fsf@gentoo.org>
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Thanks for this Sam.
I would like to see this added to the main Gentoo repo but also urge
maintainers of other active Gentoo repos to add it to theirs,
portage(!), kde & lisp overlay, soko, etc.
For a quick reference here is the Exherbo's .mailmap file:
https://gitlab.exherbo.org/exherbo/arbor/-/blob/master/.mailmap?ref_type=heads
W dniu 13.02.2024 o 09:39, Sam James pisze:
> Hi,
>
> We should consider adding a .mailmap to gentoo.git.
>
> There's a few reasons:
> * We should accurately map pre-developer-status contributions.
> For example, it'd be nice if sam@cmpct.info was mapped correctly
> into sam@gentoo.org when doing git blame.
>
> We know sam@cmpct.info and sam@gentoo.org are the same person, it
> feels coherent to tell git that via the mechanism intended for it.
>
> * It's useful for when people retire as well. Not that I plan on going
> anywhere any time soon (sorry!), but this is both a useful way for
> people to better "retain credit" *and* for e.g. 'git blame' to work
> better if they then come back as a contributor but not a developer, which
> happens on occasion, or if they occasionally contribute with a
> different email address (we have this for some devs who contribute
> under a "work context" too).
>
> * It allows people to have git respecting changing their name for
> various reasons (e.g. we've had contributors start using their real name
> and vice-versa over the years).
>
> I was considering this anyway but xgqt pinged me about it after
> I mentioned it on a recent bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/836936#c12) as well
> which made me think there's perhaps some merit in it.
>
> thanks,
> sam
--
Have a great day!
~ Maciej XGQT Barć
xgqt@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(dotnet, emacs, math, ml, nim, scheme, sci)
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Xgqt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-13 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-13 8:39 [gentoo-dev] Introducing .mailmap? Sam James
2024-02-13 8:51 ` Maciej Barć [this message]
2024-02-13 9:01 ` Petr Vaněk
2024-02-13 9:59 ` Arsen Arsenović
2024-02-13 16:50 ` Matthias Maier
2024-02-17 4:26 ` Sam James
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